Mark Smalley
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Forum: Plugins
In reply to: [gPress] [Plugin: gPress] Multiple locations, one mapThanks ever so much for the encouragement and support – we’re doing as much as we can in the little spare time we have available but have huge plans nonetheless…
You can follow our progress more closely within the BuddyPress community site, which is where our official forum and donate page can also be found:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/gpress/donate/Using the “places” post types from the plugin, you can easily have as many maps as you like on any one page with each place represented by one marker on the map.
With the shortcodes, its actually possible to set-up almost anything, but have not completed the documentation or thoroughly tested every possible combination, but I do know you can:
>> Create ad-hoc maps for on-the-fly locations
>> Create a map that shows ALL places as markers
>> Create a Foursquare mapWe will eventually be allowing for combinations (such as places and Foursquare activity and so on and so forth), as well as adding hooks and filters that will allow this data to be manipulated, but at present, this cannot be done out of the box.
In addition, we presently have no plans on allowing people to import locations, where do you envision them coming from and in what format?
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Geo-Tagging with ThePremiumPress@anointed – have just replied to your email – and once again, my deepest apologies for the delay… Look forward to hearing back from you…
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Geo-Tagging with ThePremiumPressThanks for testing out the plugin – unfortunately, we have not yet had the time to put a proper tutorial together on how to use it.
We do however have some very basic documentation available on how to set it up or what to expect once it has been activated:
http://smalley.my/gpress/documentation/And also have some examples of the shortcodes available:
http://smalley.my/gpress/shortcodes/Essentially, gPress add new geo-relevant layers to WordPress, adding a new post type called “places”, which allows you to set as many different places as you like, which each get represented by a marker on the map.
Using shortcodes, you can then create a page and insert a map that shows all of those places on the same map, which is what you are after. Using the WYSIWYG shortcuts from within the POSTS only allows you to add ad-hoc maps with one marker.
If you want to display all places on a single map, you will need to first create a page and then add the necessary shortcode to display all the places on that map.
gPress also allows you to integrate Foursquare and links in with BuddyPress to provide user locations and sitewide geo-tagged posts. It also adds new geoRSS features and integrates with the native Automattic mobile applications to allow you to geo-tag posts from your mobile device. More features and better documentation will be available soon, but time is limited – so if anyone wants to put a tutorial together, we’d be ever so grateful… 🙂
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Geo-Tagging with ThePremiumPress@ant01 – with gPress, you will be capable of adding as many “places” as you like, and then using shortcodes, you could create a page and add a map showing all the places…
As for how the above link was mapped, there’s no easy answer for that I’m afraid – anything is possible with Google Maps if you have an understanding of JavaScript and are prepared to read and explore the API 3 examples and documentation…
Forum: Your WordPress
In reply to: Geo-Tagging with ThePremiumPress@ant01 – The closest think to what you are looking for is gMaps, a premium theme from the company I work for – http://thepremiumpress.com/products/gmaps/ – we are presently in the midst of building a new version of this theme that is a full-on geo-tagging theme framework, where the parent themes holds all the geo-tagging goodness, and the child theme is used for styling – where any form of design is possible. This new version is fully WordPress 3.0 compatible and features several new features such as custom marker types and fine-grain module control over every element that you would wish to geo-tag. However, this is NOT free, but is backed by an incredible company who offer fantastic support, with me at the center of it…
However, if you are looking for a FREE option and have an adventurous side to you, there is another option, as in the limited spare personal time that I have available, I also work on a FREE community projects called gPress – http://buddypress.org/community/groups/gpress/ – which is a FREE plugin that works on BuddyPress and WordPress and has a LOT planned for its future growth. Unfortunately, gPress is only at Version 0.2.2.3 at the moment, so is in a very early beta stage, and because its free, I am unable to offer any form of guarantee regrading how much time I can spend on it or support it, not until we get enough community interest to make it as open as BuddyPress is, which is something I hope to achieve through the use of PressBuddies – http://pressbuddies.com – another personal pet-project I have even less time to spend on… 🙂
Hope this helps to answer your question and clear-up any confusion that may have been developing from the threads above…?
And for those who do not already know, if you want to follow gPress from the official BuddyPress.org community site, the link is:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/gpress/activity/The official gPress support forums can be found at:
http://buddypress.org/community/groups/gpress/forum/Thanks again for everyone’s feedback, I just hope we are able to keep the updates and features coming whilst sticking to our roadmap in a somewhat timely fashion…
@nit3watch and @grosbouff – I believe gPress 0.2.2.2 should fix both of your problems regarding the back-end errors, which were being caused by the use of short_open_tags, which require a change to your PHP.ini files in order to work – so rather than do that, I changed the code back to old fashions normal tags – sorry for forgetting about this… :p Forgot that not all hosting environments support it…
Am uploading gPress 0.2.2.2 to the repository now, should hopefully be available for download by the time you read this…
@nit3watch – would rather keep as much BUG TRACKING as possible in the BuddyPress.org community site, as its more flexible and easy to post within the activity streams and or group forums, as required…
Will continue investigating the admin problem you and @grosbouff are facing, it sure is frustrating when I am unable to replicate the problem on my own site – as I don’t know where to start or what to look for… 🙁
Just to confirm, has this problem in the back-end always been there for you from whatever version of gPress you started using…?
Does it show up regardless of what themes and (or) other plugins you are running…?
@wotacharlie – I just uploaded gPress 0.2.2.1 which has a new advanced options setting in the MISC Settings sub-tab that allows you to remove the jQuery 1.4.2 we have add to your themes header. Does this help?
@nit3watch – We have fixed the issue by only having the Foursquare session_start function run in the admin pages, which now fixes the problem you were facing with searching groups and forums. Could you please verify if the new version solves your problems or not…?
@wotacharlie – Perhaps we should add an “advanced option” in our plugin for removing jQuery from gPress (in emergencies such as these) as a way to combat such problems in the future…?
@nit3watch – I also have the same problem with the search. The session_start() gets used by Foursquare – will see what I can do to fix the problem and will hopefully release a new version before the end of the day…
When you say you are looking for search by location, what is it you would like to search and from where would you like to do the search…?
We do have plans to offer front-end searching soon, and are just thinking of the best ways to provide it to satisfy as many needs as situations as possible – there’s so many options available, it’s just a matter of picking the best ones whilst trying to avoid the need for editing themes.
@wotacharlie – can you post a link to your site…?
I presume its the Geo Settings page that you are referring to that is having problems…?
Do you know if there are any specific JS errors and whether both copies of jQuery are coming from gPress, or whether one is coming from another theme or plugin…?
When I view the Geo-Setting page on my own site and the two demo sites I have locally, I only get one copy of jQuery, which is coming from gPress and is loaded using wp_enqueue_script, so shouldn’t conflict with other themes or plugins unless the other theme or plugin is not using the wp_enqueue_script load method – either that, or I still do not full yunderstand how the wp_enqueue_script function works? :p
Forum: Plugins
In reply to: Google Map plug in that doesn’t generate validation errosYou could try gPress…
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gpress/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: Geo location tagsYes, you need a plugin in order to showcase the geo-tagged information.
There are two that I know about that are compatible with mobile apps:
gPress – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gpress/
Geolocation – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/geolocation/Forum: Fixing WordPress
In reply to: [Plugin: Geotag] Firefox & IE display gray screenHave you thought about trying another plugin, such as gPress…?
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/gpress/